Tatsumi Romano

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Tatsumi Romano
Born (1998-04-17) April 17, 1998 (age 25)
OccupationActor
Years active2010-present

Tatsumi Romano (born April 17, 1998) is an Asian American actor. She is best known for her role as Missy, one of the two protagonists in the series Class of Lies of Snap Originals. [1]

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Career

Romano began her career performing voice-over roles in animations, including PBS's WordWorld and various commercials.

In 2018, Romano moved to Los Angeles to pursue full-time acting at 19. [2] She acted in the 2018 thriller-suspense film Ladyworld , directed by Amanda Kramer. [3] [4] [5] The film was selected for the Frontières Platform at the Festival de Cannes in April of that year. [6] Later in 2018, she starred as one of the protagonists in Snapchat's Snap Original, Class of Lies, a series based on two college best friends and roommates who solve cold cases on their crime podcast. [7] The series was the recipient of the Writers Guild of America Awards for Best Short Form New Media and received over 20 million viewers. [8] [9]

In 2021, she appeared in two films: Nineteen on Fire, alongside Euphoria's Alexa Demie, and Year One. [10]

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